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THE VILLAGE REGISTER. V w DEVOTED TO AGRICULTURE, EDUCATION, DOMESTIC ECONOMY, TEMP ERANCE, M O R A 1. 1 T Y ANI) GENERAL INTELLIGENCE VOLUME 1. SALEM, COLUMBIANA COUNTY, OHIO, 2d MONTH, (FEBRUARY] 28, 1843. NUMBER 47. IWscdlaneous. INQUISITIVENESS OF CHILDRENA great deal of care is needful in our mode of disposing of the sometimes absurd and often strange and teasing questions of children. The first efforts of the mind, like the first movements of the body, may seem proper subjects of mirth to the observer. But it is not *afe to meet thus the advances of an infant, who looks to its eiders for guidance at every step. The sense of shame is very early in its operations, and being laughed at is no comfortable thing even to a child. Do not expect to be sought a second time with readiness for information, by one, whose inquiries, however simple, you have Sut by, with an emphatic 'Pshaw! Tonsense! ? How do I know?' Much less suppose that the crude conceptions of a child will be as frankly exposed to you after you have made them your 6port. If a question can be answered it ought to be ? and that in such a way as shall serve to correct the mistakes of him who presents it without causing him to feel as if he ought to be ashamed for having made them. And there are other methods of allaying a curiosity which you are uiiable to satisfy, than harsly shutting up the lips of the little enquirer by a frown, or driving him as a troublesome intruder, from your presence. Surely no parent would grudge a half hour's time from any pursuit, to be devoted to the communication of that knowledge, which being eagerly asked for, cannot fail to be received with pleasure, and therefore be the better remembered. Similar cautions might be made in regard to tlic manner of treating the mistakes of children. Letter from Father Miller. ? Air. Miller has written the following letter, explanatory of his belief. Dear Brother Himcs: ? At the request of numerous friends, I herein transmit to them, through you, a brief statement of facts relative to the many stories with which the public are humbugged, by the pulpit, press, and the bar-room declamations, concerning the principles I advocate, and the management of my wordly corcerns. My principles, in brief, are, that Jesus Christ will comc again to this earth ? cleanse, purify, and take possession of the same, with all His Saints, some time between March 31, 1813, and March 21, 1811. I have never, for the space of more than twentythree years had any other time, preachcd or published by me. 1 have never fixed on any month, day, or hour, between that time. I have never found any mistake in reckoning, summing up, or miscalculation. I have madj no provisions for any other time. 1 am perfectly satisfied that the Bible is true, and is the Word of God; and 1 am confident, 1 rely wholly on that blessed hook for my faith in this m itter. 1 am not a l'rophet; I atn not sent to prophesy, but to read, believe, and publish, what God has inspired the ancient Prophets to administer unto us, in the prophecies of the Old and New Testaments. These have been, and now are, my principles; an 1 1 hope 1 shall never be ashamed of them. As to worldly cares, 1 have had but very few for 1 2 yeai s past. I have a wife and eight children; I have great reason to believe, they arc all the children of God and believers in the same doctrine with myself. 1 own a small farm in Low Hampton, N. Y. My family support themselves upon it, and 1 believe they arc esteemed frugal, temperate and industrious. They use hospitality without grudging, and never turn a pilgrim from th j house, or the needy from their door. I bless God my family are benevolent and kind to all men who need their sympathy and aid. 1 have no cares to manage, except my own individual wants. I have no funds or debts due me of any amount. '?! owe uo man any thing." I have expended marc than ,<,"2000 of my property in twelve years, besides what God has given me through the dear friends in this cause. Yours, respectfully, W m. Miller. Philadelphia, Feb. 4, 1813. Owing more than you are north. ? Two men were disputing about the relative nmountof their property, when oue pf them exclaimed ? '? 1 owe more than you were ever worth!" There are a great many rich men now-a-days bt that valuation* COMPLIMENTARY TO WOMEN. A lady in Lancaster has lately proposed that all the women of Peiunylvania should put their jewelry into a common stock, and present it* to the State, to save it from the dishonor of repudiating its debts. To this the Philadelphia North American roponds, thus: "Home was oncc saved by the cackling of a goose; why should not Pennsylvania be rescued from dishonor by the suggestion of the noblest of creatures ? a woman?'''' The manner in which the lady makes the proposition, might perhaps have suggested the compliment. She says: "Our lords will never pay the debt in the world; and it will certainly be no very great hardship for us to dispense with our jewelry for a short time. And when we pay off this great debt for them, our chivalrous beaux will be both able and willing to buy us a new supply." It seems to us that one who understands the dignified simplicity of true womanhood, will never talk of our "lords," and "chivalry," or "beaux:" or propose to give up jewels to the State, with a view to "a new supply." Woman should aim, at inspiring respect; and deserving this, will perceive how poor a thing is gallantry, and how much grossness it serves to cover. The remark of the Nrfth American, however, seems deficient both in respect, and in the baser, though gilded substitute, called gallantry. It. reminds us of what ^tie J\t^ita$#iJist said to Adam ClarkeTln ordtfl'to overcome his prejudices against a woman's preaching. "If an Ass reproved Baalam, and a barn-door fowls reproved Peter, why should not a woman reprove sin ?" ? Anti-Slavery Standard. Tuickf.ry in Trade. ? The Inst number of Hunt's Merchant* magazine contains an interesting memoir of Gideon Lee, from which we derive the following anecdote, illustrative of his own fair dealings, and of the usual effect of trickery in trade. No man more thoroughly despised dishonesty than Mr. Lee, and he used to remark, "no trade can be sound that is itotdfecncticial to both parties; to the buyer as well as to the seller. A man may obtain a temporary advantage by selling an article for more than it is worth, but the very ellect of such operations must recoil on him, in the shape of bad debts and increased risks." A person with whom he had some trauactions, once boasted to him that he had, on one occasion, obtained an advantage over such a neighbor, and upon another occasion over another neighbor, ?'and to-day" said he "1 have obtained one over you." "Well," said Mr. Lee, ?'that may be; but if you will promise never to enter my oftice again I will give you that bundle of goat-skins." The man made the promise and took them. Fifteen years afterwards, he walked into Mr. Lee's ollicc. At the instant on seeing him he exclaimed; ''you have violated your word, pay me for the goat-skins!" "Oil!" said the man, '?! am quite poor, and have been very unfortunate since 1 saw you." "Yes," said Mr. Lee, "and you always will be poor, that miserable desire for overreaching others must ever keep you so." William Tell Outdone. ? Several of the feats of skill and daring of the Chinese arc, to the uninitiated, truly astonishing; for instance: ? Two men from Nrnkin, appear in t?e strCcrts of Canton; the one places his back against a stone wall or wooden fence, the upper part of his person being divested of clothing. Ilis associate, armed with a large knife, retires to a distance, say from 100 to '200 feet. At a given signal the knife is thrown, with an unering aim., in the direction of the person opposite, within a hair's bredtli of his neck, immediately below his car. ? With such certainty of success is the blow aimed and so great is the confidence reposed by the one in the skill of the other, that not the slightest uneasiness is discernible in the features of him whose life is the forfeit of the slghtcst deviation on the part of the practitioner. This feat is again repeated, and with similar success, only varying the direction of the knife to the opposite side of the neck of the exposed person, or to any other point of proximity to the living target as the spectator may desire. From tlie New York Tribune. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. tfclgium. ? King Leopold ascended the throne of Belgium in 1830, and, ?being a disciple of the anti-killing philosophers of the age, promptly declared that he should not doom any- man to death, unless under circumstances of extraordinary atrocity. (This resolution was one which would soon make itself manifest to all by acts, even if its concealment were attempted, it carried with it, in our view, all the evils which would result from a legal abrogation ofcapital punishment, without securing all its benefits. We dislike the idea of pardons ? of irregular and intermittent justice.) And yet one of the chief jurists of the country, and now one of the king's counsellors of State, published in 1836, a work on jurisprudence, embracing the statistics of crime in that country, which show that, while the number of murders for years before had been pretty steadily tight per annum, for the five years following they averaged but Jour. Is not this to the purpose, and worth a whole balloon of eloquence? Tuscany. ? This country abolished the infliction of death, by law, .about 1778, and adhered to that abolition through a quarter of a century. When ?its independent government was subverted by the democratic despotism of revolutionary France, the guillotine was among the instruments of human regeneration established by the new supremacy. Now we have no precise and full statistics with regard to this country ? we deeply regret that we have not ? but European writers of high character affirm, that the murders greatly diminished after the abolition of capita) punishment ? that they were ( far fewer during the twenty-five years . exemption from legal bloodshed, than j before ? less than they have been since death has been restored ? and far less than in other parts of Italy at the same < period. -rrr: Utt .rat i a facts can be well got over. Russia. ? The opponents of capital punishment do lay great stress on the fact, that this punishment was abolished mi Russia a hundred years ago; 1 that it has never been re-admitted into the code of that immense and semibarbarous empire; and that her statesmen and authors unanimously agree, that its abolition has been followed b) the most salutary results; that heinous crimes arc less frequent among the people than formerly. It not this a case directly in point, and mightily effective ? How is it to be. escaped? A cavil at the absence ol" precise data will hardly answer, siuce the Russian government docs not court publicity lor its operations: the simple fact that sixty millions of people live in at least the usual security against murderous assaults in the absence of death-penalty, and, after a century of experience, still warmly and proudly proclaim their own system superior to that which prescribes judicial killing, is certainly very much to the purpose. Oppression. ? Several females who had entered into employment in on e of the manufacturing establishments at Lowell, Mass., lately left on account of a heavy reduction being made in the price of wages. This gave offence to the agents of the mill, who accordingly sought to prevent them from working at any other placc. Wherever the girls went to seek employment they found the owners of the Middlesex factory ? the mill at which they had been working ? had sent advice that they ought not to be hired, which prevented them from procuring "vork. In some instances they had commenced work at the other places, but were discharged as soon as the Middlesex Company gave information of their having left their former employ; The girls have petitioned the Legislature to take some measures for their protection against this persecution, as they have not the means to carry on a suit against so wealthy a corporation. This system is too much pursued in this country, and the poor operative who earns a scanty pittance by hard tutor, BWide the slave of some individual corporation, by a combination of all similar corporations in its vicinity. The laborer has a right to seek for employment where he pleases, and all efforts to prevent him from indulging in this right is the very height of persecution, and should be frowned down by an intelligent community. Flirts and Flirtino. ? No girl ever made a happy union by flirtation; because no man capable of making a woman permanently happy was ever attracted by that which is lisgusting to rational and refined minds; the fool may be caught; and with the fool's life will be what it ought to be between a flirt and a coxcomb! Flirtation in a woman is equivalent to libertinism in a man; it is the manifestation of the same loose principles, on'y restrained by the usages of the world from developing itsalf in a similar way. The bare idea of this ought to preserve thousands, who perhaps fall into the error through mere exuberance of spirits, from exposing themselves to a suspicion at which their natures must shrink. Youth, beauty, or genuine accomplishments, stand in no need of the mistaken weapon of flirtation to achieve their highest conquest; if they resort to it, we may be assured that there is a conciousness of want of desert, or a vanity which must poison all true enjoyment.Let the young, the lovely, and the gifted, therefore adhere to that nature which has made them what they are; and leave flirtation to those who fancy they cannot provoke attention without forcing themselves, by ill manners, into the unfeminine situation of being conspicuous. The despairing who has courted marriage for years without being courted; the silly ordinary woman who has aped the graces without success, and the ridiculous, aflectcd would be accomplished, unsuspected of endowments except in her own idea; those may try flirtation for effect ? they can hardly suffer, from being a few decrees more contemptible in the sight c>f men, who have hitherto disregarded, ind now only laugh at and despise them. Monomania. ? Deplorvble effects df Milleuism. ? A curious case ' .? i.;,,, p ..itny v.u understand from belief in these doctrines, lias lately occured at North East, Pa., the statements relative to which are furnished us by a friend. The subject is a young man named Putnam, who imbibed the notion that he should die on the last day of the year just expired. For some length of time lie has been laboring under this delusion, which he strenously declared was made known to him by revelation. .So infatuated was he with this idea, that he gave up his business, employed his time in drawing devices on the tomb stones at the graveyard, and occupied nine days in hevvingouta sepulcherin which to die, a grave six feet deep in rock! Accordingly, having made all the preparations, he proceeded to his tomb, which was situated in a secluded spot, accompanied by some two hundred persons present by invite, and unflinchingly laid himself down in his grave Iodic. ! lie remained there for the space of an hour and a half, the assembled multitude 110 doubt waiting with anxious suspense to see him give up the ghost; but to use a vulgar phrase, 'he could'nt come it.' The miserable man crcpt out of his hole and departed thence, strongly impressed that he should'nt die that day. ? Fcedouia C;:nsor. A curious instance of the uncertainty of human testimony was exhibited last week in the District Court at Philadelphia, in the' case of Davis vs. the Bank of the Nothern Liberties. Some yente since a man was indicted, convicted, and imprisoned for the forgery of certain checks in the plaintiff's name upon the bank. This person was convicted mainly on the evidence of atelier in the bank. The convict has served out the term of his imprisonment, and now Davis sues the bank to recover his deposite. The bank defends itself upon the ground that the checks once said to be forged, were genuine, and produces the same clerk to prove their genuineness. He says he relied mainly, in declaring them forgeries, upon the omission of the middle name of the plaintiff in the signature; but now finds that it is also wanting on the genuine checks. A Varmount editor thus advises the young ladies in those diggins: ? 'When you have got a man to the sticking point ? that is, when lie proposes ? don't turn away your head or affect a blush, or refer him to pa, or ask for more time; all those tricks arc understood now, but just look him in the face, give hhn a hearty smack, and tell him to go and order the furniture.' The Washington correspondent of the National Anti-Slavery Standard, says : "A northern member of the House informed me, a few days ago, that a southern representative had asked him on that day, what he thought about admitting Texas. The northern member answered, that he was entirely opposed to it, for two reasons. First, we had territory enough; and second- 1 ly, that it would be a slave territory, and increase and perpetuate slavery and the slave trade. The southerner then read part of a letter, which he said he had just received from a friend of his, in Texas; the purport of which was, that the country was in consternation at the late capture of the army; that they had no resources, of any kind, for defense; that if the Mexicans were now to enter Ihe country, the Tcxans could make little or no resistance; that they might rally temporarily on a sudden emergency, but could not be kept in the field; that under these circumstances, their only hope was to be annexed to the United States. The southern representative having finished the reading, remarked, that "we [the South] intend that country ghall be annexed." "But do you expect the North to go it?" "We do; and when wc have got Texas, let the North, if she pleases, dissolve the Union," Rupcr.vriox. ? Says the author of Lacon ? "There arc* two ways of establishing our reputation ? to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best however, to secure tho former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter. ? His calumniation is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us but it is also the only survice he will perform for nothing." Beauties of war. ? An English officer, writing to his friend in England here. Wc lost officers and men enough but it is impossible even to compute the loss of the Chinese; for when they could stand no longer against us, they cut the throats of their wives and children, or drove them into wells or ponds, and then destroyed themselves. ]n many houses there were from eight to twelve dead bodies, and I myself have seen a dozen women and children drowning themselves in a small pond the day after the fight. Hole in the .Mississippi. ? We are informed that a party of men who were at work with a diving-bell on the wreck of the General Prattc, 'which was burnt and sunk in the Mississippi, about twelve miles above Memphis, on the day previous to the late shock of the earthquake on the evening of the 4th inst. report that on the 4th they reached the wreck, in about twenty feet water, but on the day following, upon descending to the same depth, the wreck had disappeared. Search was made by dragging along the bed of the river for a considerable distance, but no trace could be found of the wreck, and upon sounding, a depth of water was found in several places of from 100 to 125 feet, and for about one hundred feet along the bed no bottom could be found ; the greatest depth previously known was from 20 to 30 feet. A bar was also discovered in a part of the river which previously was deep water. Jt was the imprcssio nof the men in charge of the diving-bell, that the wreck laid entirely disappeared under the bed of the river. [St. Louis Repub. Justice is a duty ? generosity a virtue. Yet the world is too apt to regard the first as a favor and the latter as a folly. Despotism, says an eloquent writr?r, can no more exist in a nation until, the liberty of the press is destroyed^ than the night can happen before, the sun sets. A bed is a bundle, of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet. wc quit it with regret; and we make up our minds eve.y night to leave it early, but we m ;kc up our bodies every morning to keep it late. Geniuses make bad husbands and bad wives, and when two geniuses come together in marriage, it is like the meeting of two electric clouds which discharge th.-ir thunder and i lightning at each other. No genius | should ever get Hurried. TRIP FROM WASHINGTON C I T / TO SALEM. The spred of travelling does not depend more upon the kind of conveyance we take, than does the comfort and pleasure of a journey on t ie character of the passengers we fall in with unon the way. Sometimes we may have the good fortune to meet wit! i those in the public cars or coaches who can import much instruction, and who are courteous and agreeable. ? Again we will be thurst into those vehicles amid a rude unpolished set of "gentlemen," the tendency of wl*>50 conversation is merely to divert ti> ; mind from profitable contemplation which the surrounding scenery would otherwise inspire, without affording any interest in return. About 5 o'clock on the morning of the 15th inst., I took breakfast in Washington city, and bidding friends adieu, hastened through rain and sleet to the railroad depot. The morning was dark and the streets not being illuminated, no light was to be seen except what proceeded from the windows of a few billiard rooms. The cars started at 6 for Baltimore. Tho' the passengers who had just been aroused from their agreeable repose, felt drowsy and mopish, they were not permitted to dose away the rest of the night's sleep, of which they had been deprived, for a gentleman passenger, who appeared to be most at home when in the centre of a group of listeners to his conversation, arrested their attention by his pertinent observation and his intellectual and scholastic accomplishments. lie showed no delicacy in introducing abruptly any subject upon which he delighted to discourse; and in this rcspect many would consider him impertinent. He discovered a Friend setting near him in the car, and before we had been going many minutes, introduced the subject of Qua he was not a Clergyman, and receiving an answer in the negative, he asked if he was a Quaker. The Friend said he was. Well, said he, I know of no class of people whose conduct is more upright, and who arc more proverbial for honesty than Quakers, but they are all infidels. lie apologized for the expression, but said he spoke candidly though plain. The Friend told him he did not question his sincerity, but that it was one tiling to make a chargc and another to sustain it. He replied lie might be in error, but lie had formed this opinion, and his reasons therefor were that that sect ditl'cred in nearly all their religious ceremonies from other religionists, <fcc. lie went on to say that they even differed in their language ? using " thee" and " thou," instead of adopting the customary modes of speech; he asked, why this departure from common usage? He thought it not courteous, &c. By this time the passengers in the car tad nearly all collected near where this controversy was going on. The Friend heie reminded him that he had just previously accused his sett with being infidels: now he cast rcpfoach upon them for manifesting their belief in, the Scriptures, by using its very language. Though the listeners were evidently with the old man in sentiment, some demonstrations of applause were manifest at t'.iis retort on the old gentleman. The Friend reminded him moreover, that lie had admitted that this sectwu's mast distinguished for the uprightness of their conduct, and asked hiiD whether what he had now said with regfi,rd to this Society did not go far to disprove his first assertion; as it i must oe admitted that men's conduct an ^ not their professions and forms of Worship constituted the fruits of their religion. lie disputed that the Friond had ever read the Bible, alleging that no person who had not read that liook in its original language had ever read the Bible, but merely a translation of it ? the Septuegen ? which was, iu many important particulars, different from the original. Two intelligent young msn who sat near had been named as moderators; and upon this question, after hearing thp arguments, they were divided in opinion. One said the Friend having read what is almost universally termed the Bible, could not be said to not have read it. The other contended that the translation of the Bible, could not be the Bible. Some further debate took place as to the propriety of the singular pronoun thee or thou to designate one person; the result of which was that the

THE VILLAGE REGISTER. V w DEVOTED TO AGRICULTURE, EDUCATION, DOMESTIC ECONOMY, TEMP ERANCE, M O R A 1. 1 T Y ANI) GENERAL INTELLIGENCE VOLUME 1. SALEM, COLUMBIANA COUNTY, OHIO, 2d MONTH, (FEBRUARY] 28, 1843. NUMBER 47. IWscdlaneous. INQUISITIVENESS OF CHILDRENA great deal of care is needful in our mode of disposing of the sometimes absurd and often strange and teasing questions of children. The first efforts of the mind, like the first movements of the body, may seem proper subjects of mirth to the observer. But it is not *afe to meet thus the advances of an infant, who looks to its eiders for guidance at every step. The sense of shame is very early in its operations, and being laughed at is no comfortable thing even to a child. Do not expect to be sought a second time with readiness for information, by one, whose inquiries, however simple, you have Sut by, with an emphatic 'Pshaw! Tonsense! ? How do I know?' Much less suppose that the crude conceptions of a child will be as frankly exposed to you after you have made them your 6port. If a question can be answered it ought to be ? and that in such a way as shall serve to correct the mistakes of him who presents it without causing him to feel as if he ought to be ashamed for having made them. And there are other methods of allaying a curiosity which you are uiiable to satisfy, than harsly shutting up the lips of the little enquirer by a frown, or driving him as a troublesome intruder, from your presence. Surely no parent would grudge a half hour's time from any pursuit, to be devoted to the communication of that knowledge, which being eagerly asked for, cannot fail to be received with pleasure, and therefore be the better remembered. Similar cautions might be made in regard to tlic manner of treating the mistakes of children. Letter from Father Miller. ? Air. Miller has written the following letter, explanatory of his belief. Dear Brother Himcs: ? At the request of numerous friends, I herein transmit to them, through you, a brief statement of facts relative to the many stories with which the public are humbugged, by the pulpit, press, and the bar-room declamations, concerning the principles I advocate, and the management of my wordly corcerns. My principles, in brief, are, that Jesus Christ will comc again to this earth ? cleanse, purify, and take possession of the same, with all His Saints, some time between March 31, 1813, and March 21, 1811. I have never, for the space of more than twentythree years had any other time, preachcd or published by me. 1 have never fixed on any month, day, or hour, between that time. I have never found any mistake in reckoning, summing up, or miscalculation. I have madj no provisions for any other time. 1 am perfectly satisfied that the Bible is true, and is the Word of God; and 1 am confident, 1 rely wholly on that blessed hook for my faith in this m itter. 1 am not a l'rophet; I atn not sent to prophesy, but to read, believe, and publish, what God has inspired the ancient Prophets to administer unto us, in the prophecies of the Old and New Testaments. These have been, and now are, my principles; an 1 1 hope 1 shall never be ashamed of them. As to worldly cares, 1 have had but very few for 1 2 yeai s past. I have a wife and eight children; I have great reason to believe, they arc all the children of God and believers in the same doctrine with myself. 1 own a small farm in Low Hampton, N. Y. My family support themselves upon it, and 1 believe they arc esteemed frugal, temperate and industrious. They use hospitality without grudging, and never turn a pilgrim from th j house, or the needy from their door. I bless God my family are benevolent and kind to all men who need their sympathy and aid. 1 have no cares to manage, except my own individual wants. I have no funds or debts due me of any amount. '?! owe uo man any thing." I have expended marc than ,f men, who have hitherto disregarded, ind now only laugh at and despise them. Monomania. ? Deplorvble effects df Milleuism. ? A curious case ' .? i.;,,, p ..itny v.u understand from belief in these doctrines, lias lately occured at North East, Pa., the statements relative to which are furnished us by a friend. The subject is a young man named Putnam, who imbibed the notion that he should die on the last day of the year just expired. For some length of time lie has been laboring under this delusion, which he strenously declared was made known to him by revelation. .So infatuated was he with this idea, that he gave up his business, employed his time in drawing devices on the tomb stones at the graveyard, and occupied nine days in hevvingouta sepulcherin which to die, a grave six feet deep in rock! Accordingly, having made all the preparations, he proceeded to his tomb, which was situated in a secluded spot, accompanied by some two hundred persons present by invite, and unflinchingly laid himself down in his grave Iodic. ! lie remained there for the space of an hour and a half, the assembled multitude 110 doubt waiting with anxious suspense to see him give up the ghost; but to use a vulgar phrase, 'he could'nt come it.' The miserable man crcpt out of his hole and departed thence, strongly impressed that he should'nt die that day. ? Fcedouia C;:nsor. A curious instance of the uncertainty of human testimony was exhibited last week in the District Court at Philadelphia, in the' case of Davis vs. the Bank of the Nothern Liberties. Some yente since a man was indicted, convicted, and imprisoned for the forgery of certain checks in the plaintiff's name upon the bank. This person was convicted mainly on the evidence of atelier in the bank. The convict has served out the term of his imprisonment, and now Davis sues the bank to recover his deposite. The bank defends itself upon the ground that the checks once said to be forged, were genuine, and produces the same clerk to prove their genuineness. He says he relied mainly, in declaring them forgeries, upon the omission of the middle name of the plaintiff in the signature; but now finds that it is also wanting on the genuine checks. A Varmount editor thus advises the young ladies in those diggins: ? 'When you have got a man to the sticking point ? that is, when lie proposes ? don't turn away your head or affect a blush, or refer him to pa, or ask for more time; all those tricks arc understood now, but just look him in the face, give hhn a hearty smack, and tell him to go and order the furniture.' The Washington correspondent of the National Anti-Slavery Standard, says : "A northern member of the House informed me, a few days ago, that a southern representative had asked him on that day, what he thought about admitting Texas. The northern member answered, that he was entirely opposed to it, for two reasons. First, we had territory enough; and second- 1 ly, that it would be a slave territory, and increase and perpetuate slavery and the slave trade. The southerner then read part of a letter, which he said he had just received from a friend of his, in Texas; the purport of which was, that the country was in consternation at the late capture of the army; that they had no resources, of any kind, for defense; that if the Mexicans were now to enter Ihe country, the Tcxans could make little or no resistance; that they might rally temporarily on a sudden emergency, but could not be kept in the field; that under these circumstances, their only hope was to be annexed to the United States. The southern representative having finished the reading, remarked, that "we [the South] intend that country ghall be annexed." "But do you expect the North to go it?" "We do; and when wc have got Texas, let the North, if she pleases, dissolve the Union," Rupcr.vriox. ? Says the author of Lacon ? "There arc* two ways of establishing our reputation ? to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best however, to secure tho former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter. ? His calumniation is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us but it is also the only survice he will perform for nothing." Beauties of war. ? An English officer, writing to his friend in England here. Wc lost officers and men enough but it is impossible even to compute the loss of the Chinese; for when they could stand no longer against us, they cut the throats of their wives and children, or drove them into wells or ponds, and then destroyed themselves. ]n many houses there were from eight to twelve dead bodies, and I myself have seen a dozen women and children drowning themselves in a small pond the day after the fight. Hole in the .Mississippi. ? We are informed that a party of men who were at work with a diving-bell on the wreck of the General Prattc, 'which was burnt and sunk in the Mississippi, about twelve miles above Memphis, on the day previous to the late shock of the earthquake on the evening of the 4th inst. report that on the 4th they reached the wreck, in about twenty feet water, but on the day following, upon descending to the same depth, the wreck had disappeared. Search was made by dragging along the bed of the river for a considerable distance, but no trace could be found of the wreck, and upon sounding, a depth of water was found in several places of from 100 to 125 feet, and for about one hundred feet along the bed no bottom could be found ; the greatest depth previously known was from 20 to 30 feet. A bar was also discovered in a part of the river which previously was deep water. Jt was the imprcssio nof the men in charge of the diving-bell, that the wreck laid entirely disappeared under the bed of the river. [St. Louis Repub. Justice is a duty ? generosity a virtue. Yet the world is too apt to regard the first as a favor and the latter as a folly. Despotism, says an eloquent writr?r, can no more exist in a nation until, the liberty of the press is destroyed^ than the night can happen before, the sun sets. A bed is a bundle, of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet. wc quit it with regret; and we make up our minds eve.y night to leave it early, but we m ;kc up our bodies every morning to keep it late. Geniuses make bad husbands and bad wives, and when two geniuses come together in marriage, it is like the meeting of two electric clouds which discharge th.-ir thunder and i lightning at each other. No genius | should ever get Hurried. TRIP FROM WASHINGTON C I T / TO SALEM. The spred of travelling does not depend more upon the kind of conveyance we take, than does the comfort and pleasure of a journey on t ie character of the passengers we fall in with unon the way. Sometimes we may have the good fortune to meet wit! i those in the public cars or coaches who can import much instruction, and who are courteous and agreeable. ? Again we will be thurst into those vehicles amid a rude unpolished set of "gentlemen," the tendency of wl*>50 conversation is merely to divert ti> ; mind from profitable contemplation which the surrounding scenery would otherwise inspire, without affording any interest in return. About 5 o'clock on the morning of the 15th inst., I took breakfast in Washington city, and bidding friends adieu, hastened through rain and sleet to the railroad depot. The morning was dark and the streets not being illuminated, no light was to be seen except what proceeded from the windows of a few billiard rooms. The cars started at 6 for Baltimore. Tho' the passengers who had just been aroused from their agreeable repose, felt drowsy and mopish, they were not permitted to dose away the rest of the night's sleep, of which they had been deprived, for a gentleman passenger, who appeared to be most at home when in the centre of a group of listeners to his conversation, arrested their attention by his pertinent observation and his intellectual and scholastic accomplishments. lie showed no delicacy in introducing abruptly any subject upon which he delighted to discourse; and in this rcspect many would consider him impertinent. He discovered a Friend setting near him in the car, and before we had been going many minutes, introduced the subject of Qua he was not a Clergyman, and receiving an answer in the negative, he asked if he was a Quaker. The Friend said he was. Well, said he, I know of no class of people whose conduct is more upright, and who arc more proverbial for honesty than Quakers, but they are all infidels. lie apologized for the expression, but said he spoke candidly though plain. The Friend told him he did not question his sincerity, but that it was one tiling to make a chargc and another to sustain it. He replied lie might be in error, but lie had formed this opinion, and his reasons therefor were that that sect ditl'cred in nearly all their religious ceremonies from other religionists,